which remains to be described. In that we have only one pane,
representing a large court, with the chapel on one side, and the
wash rooms and other outbuildings of the Seminary on the other. This
court is more garden-like than the other two, has fewer trees, and a
long arbor, covered with grape vines, forms a covered walk in the
middle of it. It was in this arbor that the tables were spread for
the collation in 1850, to be described hereafter. This court is
invaluable as a place for out-door exercise, where the pupils may
enjoy the fresh air, free from the annoyances and exposures of the
streets in an Oriental city.

A stream is led through all these courts in a channel lined with
stone. Its murmuring waters are a pleasant sound at early dawn, when
they mingle sweetly with the morning song of birds. Here many
Nestorian women come to fill their earthen pitchers, as the water is
not carried through the courts of Christian houses. The mission
premises belonged to Mohammedans; and here, in the shade of the tall
sycamores, Mrs. Grant used to sit, with her children, and talk with
the women who came for water. Her successors find time to continue
the same practice, and as the natives let down their pitchers (Gen.
xxiv. 18), and now and then one is broken (Eccles. xii. 6), realize
that they live in a Bible land, and seek to make its daughters feel
the power of Bible truth.

The Seminary is outwardly very humble, and would contrast very
unfavorably with the stately edifices of similar institutions at
home. But we shall see that the Saviour has not disdained to honor
it with his presence, and its earthen floors and mud walls[1] have
witnessed many a gracious visit of the Holy Spirit. Though the glory
of Lebanon has not come unto it, yet has God himself beautified the